From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Considering x86-64 fenv.s to C
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 06:04:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200118050412.GC2020@voyager> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200118011535.GD23985@port70.net>
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 02:15:35AM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> actually it's quite annoying to deal with N bit long double without
> N bit int, because sometimes you want to fiddle with the bits using
> int operations and if you don't have N bit int type you have to
> deal with endianness (you can always copy the long double into an
> array of bytes, but the layout of the bytes is not portable, same
> for union with multiple fields: you need variants for different
> endianness)
Well, yeah, but there is never going to be an 80 bit integer type. As
for endianess, I feel your pain. I just got done porting a really old
piece of software from PowerPC to ARM. Sooo many endianess problems...
Ciao,
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-18 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-16 4:30 Damian McGuckin
2020-01-16 15:11 ` Markus Wichmann
2020-01-16 16:14 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-16 18:56 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-16 19:33 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-16 21:31 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-17 3:36 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-17 3:48 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-17 3:53 ` David Edelsohn
2020-01-17 14:13 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-17 14:19 ` David Edelsohn
2020-01-17 14:53 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-18 4:45 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-18 5:29 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-19 8:50 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-19 9:07 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-19 10:42 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-01-19 12:25 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-20 5:32 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-20 17:38 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-20 21:11 ` [musl] Triggering Overflow (or Underflow) without triggering Inexact on i386 Damian McGuckin
2020-01-20 22:32 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-01-21 3:53 ` [musl] Considering x86-64 fenv.s to C Damian McGuckin
2020-01-21 4:22 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-21 4:46 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-21 7:26 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-17 16:41 ` Markus Wichmann
2020-01-18 1:15 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-01-18 5:03 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-18 5:37 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-18 9:40 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-01-24 0:42 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-24 1:11 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-24 4:13 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-24 4:55 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-24 6:08 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-24 13:44 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-24 14:45 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-24 23:59 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-25 0:11 ` Rich Felker
2020-01-26 3:28 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-26 3:28 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-26 3:30 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-26 3:32 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-26 5:25 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-27 3:32 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-27 5:39 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-02 0:47 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-03 0:54 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-03 2:09 ` Rich Felker
2020-02-03 2:12 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-22 20:17 ` Rich Felker
2020-02-22 20:53 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-23 5:41 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-23 6:25 ` Rich Felker
2020-02-23 8:35 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-07 21:25 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-07 21:38 ` Rich Felker
2020-02-07 23:53 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-02-09 5:04 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-24 7:10 ` Damian McGuckin
2020-01-18 5:04 ` Markus Wichmann [this message]
2020-02-03 14:16 [musl] PPC64(LE) support in musl requires ALTIVEC Romain Naour
2020-02-03 14:50 ` Rich Felker
2020-02-05 1:32 ` [musl] Considering x86-64 fenv.s to C Damian McGuckin
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